LibriVox recording of Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted By Death by Theodore Winthrop. Read in English by David Wales Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. He wrote two articles for The Atlantic Monthly, the first of an intended series on the nascent civil war. He was killed in the Battle Of Big Bethel in June 1861 before he...
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LibriVox recording of American Civil War Collection, Volume 1 by Various. Read in English by John Stamper; Jennifer Dorr; Ben Adams; Malcolm Reynolds; William A Crenshaw; Jothi Tharavant; and Suzanne Huron. Compilation of American Civil War related poems and short works of literature. Summary by Bill2147 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For...
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LibriVox recording of How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion by George Wilbur Peck. Read in English by Arnold A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. He had a wry sense of humor and sympathy for underdogs. ( Arnold Banner) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
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LibriVox recording of My Hunt After 'The Captain', by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read by David Wales. Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. He was regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast...
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LibriVox recording of Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865 by Susan R. Jervey; Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel; Mary Rhodes Henagan (Waring). Read in English by David Wales Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, at Northampton and Poooshee Plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan. With two contemporary reports...
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LibriVox recording of The Court and Character of King James whereunto Is Now Added the Court of King Charles: Continued unto the Beginning of These Unhappy Times: with Some Observations upon Him Instead of a Character by Anthony Weldon. Read in English by Patrick Wallace Gossipy exposés of shenanigans at the heart of government are nothing new. The author, Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648), was a courtier of years of experience and standing; his account of court intrigues around the Stuart...
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LibriVox recording of The Scouts of Stonewall, by Joseph A. Altsheler. In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenandoah Valley. He has attracted the notice of the great General Stonewall Jackson after his regiment, the Invincibles of South Carolina, suffered great losses at the Battle of Bull Run. As the war continues, Harry meets each challenge that he faces with his close friends and fellow...
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LibriVox recording of The Last Three Soldiers by William Henry Shelton. Read in English by David Wales What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in Tennessee to be a link in a chain of flag signalers across a ridge of mountains. They encounter a dizzying gorge with a rickety bridge, bears, aching heartache, freezing cold, avalanche, bats, skeletons, deserted cabins, puzzling mysteries, starvation,...
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LibriVox recording of Campaigning With Grant by Horace Porter. Read in English by David Wales In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armies of the North. This lively memoir was written from the extensive notes he took during that time. It is highly regarded by later historians. Porter continued in that position with Grant to 1869. From 1869 to 1872 he served Grant as personal secretary in the White...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, memoir, war, American civil war, civil war, ulysses s. grant
LibriVox recording of The Aged Stranger, by Francis Bret Harte. LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Aged Stranger by Francis Bret Harte. This was the fortnightly poetry project for December 28th, 2008. r information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (13MB)
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LibriVox recording of The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page. Read in English by Mark F. Smith This is a book of short stories centered around the Civil War and its aftermath. The author was a prominent Virginian in his day, and his writing shows a talent for poignant reminiscences. The title comes from the second story, in which an artillery unit detached from Lee's army determines to follow their last orders - not to let their cannons fall into Union hands - despite Lee's surrender and...
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LibriVox recording of Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War by Various. Read in English by Niki Myers; Ed Humpal; realisticspeakers; KHand; T.K. Andersen; Kalynda; Larry Wilson; Chris Pyle; Greg Giordano; MaryAnnS This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, when the wounds to North and South were still fresh, and when no event more cataclysmic had struck the Republic than a Civil War that...
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LibriVox recording of The Shades of the Wilderness by Joseph A. Altsheler. Read in English by Michael Packard; Lynne Thompson; Denise Nordell; Mike Pelton "The Shades of the Wilderness" is the seventh book of the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. Picking up where "The Star of Gettysburg" left off, this story continues the Civil War experiences of Harry Kenton and his friends in the Southern army, from the retreat after Gettygurg, to Richmond, and then through the...
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LibriVox recording of A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce. Read in English by William A Crenshaw; BettyB Two short stories from the American Civil War by Ambrose Bierce. The first story is about a brave soldier who follows orders and risks his life without question. The second is about a soldier who falls asleep on guard duty. A mistake punishable by death in Civil War times. - Summary by Bill2147 For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son by Robert E. Lee, Jr.. Read in English by David Wales The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army officer. Published in 1905. Note: in many of the letters the recipient's name is printed after General Lee's signature; the White House is not that in Washington but General Lee's elder son's house in Virginia. - Summary...
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LibriVox recording of Order Number 11 by Caroline Abbot Stanley. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. General Order No. 11 has been issued by Union General Thomas Ewing in 1863. The goal was to deprive pro-Confederates in western Missouri of power and resources. The consequences are far reaching, still affecting the four counties until this very day. The novel, Order No. 11, A Tale Of The Border, tells about the order through the eyes of people who, with little choice, had to leave behind...
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LibriVox recording of Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman. Read in English by David Wales This librivox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs, published in 1875. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for the North. He steadfastly refused to be drawn into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the best-known...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, war, American civil war, civil war, warfare, military tactics and strategy
LibriVox recording of Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War , by Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts. Read by FNH. While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An interesting view from a southern lady on what caused the war and why the south was the underdog. (Summary by FNH) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available),...
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LibriVox recording of The Complete Works of Arteumus Ward Part 2, War. by Jefferson B. Browne. Read in English by Delmar H Dolbier Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became known as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and stories told in the first person by a droll, illiterate rube with a good measure of subtle common sense who commented on...
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LibriVox recording of Herndon's Lincoln by William H. Herndon and Jesse William Weik. A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for its extensive use of first hand interviews (unusual for its time) and for Herndon's overriding determination to convey an affectionate but frank picture of his law partner's life story and career as remembered by Lincoln's family, friends, associates and neighbors. The...
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LibriVox recording of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, by Abner Doubleday. Read by Mark F. Smith Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battles (including Antietam, where he was wounded), Doubleday took over a division in the Army of the Potomac's 1st Corps. These are his memoirs of service in two of the War's great campaigns. At Chancellorsville, a...
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LibriVox recording of Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman. Read in English by Expatriate Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response to Whitman's personal observations of the Civil War, many of which come from his volunteer efforts in wartime hospitals. Despite the miseries of war described, Whitman's poems in Drum Taps assert a steady patriotism in favor of Lincoln's war effort. Interestingly, the 1915 edition...
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LibriVox recording of Recollections of the Civil War by Charles Anderson Dana. Read in English by Jennifer Dorr; Larry Wilson; Denise Nordell; Savannah; Ernst Schnell; jabc1950; Ravi Shankar; KHand; Lynne Thompson; asterix; sbnelson; Paul Simonin; Zachary Brewster-Geisz; Greg Giordano Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes of historical, political, and personal reminiscences which have been...
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LibriVox recording of Village Life in America by Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B...
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LibriVox recording of War Stories for My Grandchildren by John Watson Foster. Read in English by Lynne T; DrPGould; Nelson Hay; Chris A. Hawkins; jenno; Robert Robinson; MaryAnn; H.K. Virgil; RonBroach After years of telling these stories to his grandchildren, Foster was prevailed on to write them down for future generations. Rather than rely on his memory, he conducted research for accuracy. He served as a colonel for the Union Army during the American Civil War and later went on to serve as...
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LibriVox recording of Nurse and Spy in the Union Army by Sarah Emma Edmonds. Read in English by TriciaG The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on the field and participated in numerous battles—among which are the first and second Bull Run, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, the Seven days in front of Richmond, Antietam, and Fredericksburg—serving in the capacity of “Spy” and as “Field Nurse”...
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LibriVox recording of The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt. Read in English by Delmar H Dolbier April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the president was dead -- struck down by an assassin's bullet. Could this have been the mad act of a single demented actor? Or was there a wider conspiracy to be rooted out? At this dark moment of national confusion, rage and despair, would the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, civil war, assassination, Abraham Lincoln, surratt
LibriVox recording of The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend. Read in English by Delmar H Dolbier. A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background and subsequent events. It should be noted that some statements in this contemporaneous account have since been shown to be inaccurate. Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier For further information, including links to online text,...
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LibriVox recording of Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 9) by John Hay; John George Nicolay. Read in English by MaryAnn; Jim Locke; Mack Caster; Ciufi Galeazzi; Cal Taylor; Warren Kati; Owen Cook Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 6 chronicles Lincoln's life in 1864, including the battles of that summer and Lincoln's...
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LibriVox recording of Custer , and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Read in English by Kathleen Flanary; Sonia; Jude; Jael Baldwin; Michele Fry; Greg Giordano This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The final poem of this volume is an epic narrative poem glorifying the life and deeds of George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), who served in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. - Summary by Carolin For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of The Guns of Bull Run by Joseph A. Altsheler. Read in English by Al Rocca; Bill Yallalee; Jonathan Brubaker; Lynne Thompson; Marty; Michael Packard; WoollyBee The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dangerous territory to South Carolina on a secret mission on the eve of the Civil War. (From Chapter 4) "They will not fire! They dare not!" cried Shepard in a tense,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, war, South Carolina, soldiers, U. S. civil war
LibriVox recording of The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. Altsheler. Read in English by Michael Packard; Natalie Paula; Mike Pelton; Daniel H; KHand; Patrick Martin; Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan "The Tree of Appomattox" concludes the series of connected romances dealing with the Civil War, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run," and continued successively through "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of Stonewall," "The Sword of Antietam," "The Star of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, civil war, end of the war
LibriVox recording of Brief Lives Volume I by John Aubrey. Read in English by Nicole Lee A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying popularity, with Ruth Scurr's recent reimagined "autobiography" of Aubrey, breathing new life into this classic for the next generation of readers. - Summary by Nicole Lee For...
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LibriVox recording of The County Regiment, by Dudley Landon Vaill. Read by Epistomolus. A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org ....
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LibriVox recording of Ледяной поход (Ice March) by Roman Gul. Read in Russian by Mark Chulsky Роман Гуль «Ледяной поход (С Корниловым)». Воспоминания о первом походе Добровольческой армии генерала Корнилова на Кубань, её движении с боями от Ростова-на-Дону к Екатеринодару и обратно на Дон во время...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, kornilov, kuban cossacks "russian civil war"
LibriVox recording of Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Read in English by Sonia; larryhayes7; Mayah; Lilian Elizabeth; Larry Wilson; Eva Davis; Jason in Panama; Amy Gramour; Kathleen Moore This is a volume of poetry by American poet and feminist social reformer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Many of the poems in this volume reflect the ideas Phelps advocated during her life, and are meant to encourage the reader to entertain them. - Summary by Carolin For further...
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LibriVox recording of The Rock of Chickamauga by Joseph A. Altsheler. Read in English by ; Jeff K.; Lee Smalley; Lynne Thompson; Mike Pelton "The Rock of Chickamauga," presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been "The Guns of Bull Run," "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of Stonewall," "The Sword of Antietam" and "The Star of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, American civil war, Tennessee, Chattanooga, chickamauga
LibriVox recording of Escape From The Confederacy by Benjamin F. Hasson. Read in English by David Wales. Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short book points up Hasson’s ingenuity in overcoming obstacles to his flight to Union lines but also shows an insight into the lives of Southern blacks, both slave and free. This oral...
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LibriVox recording of Ulysses S. Grant, by Owen Wister. Read by David Wales. Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is only 145 pages in a little pamphlet size. The author is famous for his stories of the Old West, but he also wrote a substantial body of nonfiction literature. (Summary by David Wales) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox recording of Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862 by Frederick Law Olmsted. Read in English by David Wales In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It supplemented the medical care of the armed services medical corps. Its doctors, nurses, administrators, go-fers, money, and supplies saved thousands of...
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LibriVox recording of Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi by William C. Everhart. Read in English by David Wales In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863) was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, who as a result was promoted by President Lincoln to command of all the North’s military forces. Historian James M. McPherson called Vicksburg “The most brilliant and innovative campaign of the Civil War.” A U.S....
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LibriVox recording of Causes Of The American Civil War: Secession Statements Of Five Confederate States (South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi) by Various. Read in English by David Wales Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies explaining why they were attempting to leave. Here are the statements, published in 1860 and 1861, of South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, and Georgia....
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LibriVox recording of Who Burnt Columbia? by Augustine T. Smythe. Read in English by David Wales This Librivox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessmen of the former Confederacy. This reading focuses on the sworn statements of General William Tecumseh Sherman who commanded the Carolinas campaign and General Oliver O. Howard who was one of Sherman’s subordinate commanders. The subject is the...
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General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, in April, 1861. In July of that year, having taken command of the Confederate Army of the Potomac, he triumphed in the first serious clash of the war, at Manassas, Virginia. His army, aided by reinforcements from Johnston's army in the Shenandoah Valley, routed a Federal army under General...
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LibriVox recording of Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 6) by John Hay; John George Nicolay. Read in English by Jim Locke; MaryAnn; Michael Fassio; Ciufi Galeazzi; Owen Cook Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 6 chronicles Lincoln's life in early 1862. (Summary adapted from wikipedia by Ann Boulais) For further information,...
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LibriVox recording of Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. Read by Abigail Rasmussen. This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to love the four sisters as they grow and mature into young women. This book has characters any girl can relate to because each of the four March sisters has a unique and different personality. A story that the young and old have enjoyed for years, this book truly is a classic....
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LibriVox recording of A YANKEE GIRL AT FORT SUMTER, by ALICE TURNER CURTIS. Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising, and things start to change. Through these changes, Silvia gets to know the world better: from Estrella, her maid, she starts to understand what it is to be a slave, from her unjust teacher she learns that not...
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LibriVox recording of Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 by William Morris Davis. Read in English by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont. This is Volume VIII of the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs series. It is read as 33 sections using the memoir headings. John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was a leading figure in the geological explorations of the West and helped establish the federal U.S. Geological Survey in 1879. He also led the Bureau of Ethnology and advocated for...
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LibriVox recording of The Secret Service by Albert Richardson. Read in English by Maria Kasper; Greg Giordano Albert Richardson was a reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune when he volunteered to hazard an undercover journey through the American south, reporting incognito on the growing secession crisis in that region. With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, he attached himself to the Union armies as a war correspondent, sending dispatches from the fields of battle for the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, prisoner of war, civil war, war correspondents
LibriVox recording of Loss of the Sultana by Chester D. Berry. Read in English by Roger Melin April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been released, and President Lincoln had just been assassinated. The steamship 'Sultana' left New Orleans on April 21st, traveled to Vicksburg, Mississippi where it took on 1,965 federal soldiers and 35 officers, all recently released prisoners of war, most of them held at...
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